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Tag: flashdance

When I was a teenager I thought I knew the answer to everything. I thought that I had my life planned out long before I had ever even graduated high school. I thought I wanted to marry my high school sweetheart and live in the same town I grew up in, for the rest of my life. “Urban Cowboy” was my favorite movie and “Bud and Sissy” seemed like they had it all with their mobile home that they “could move it wherever they want to”. I also loved “Flashdance“. Watched it almost everyday and wished that I had her determination, and of course that I lived in New York.

By my senior year everything that I “thought” I had known, completely changed. I no longer wanted to stay in that small town. My first love turned out to be an asshole. And “Bud and Sissy” were no longer my ideals of a relationship.

Fast forward 24 years to present day…..

I am married with 5 great kids! My life is filled with chaos on a monumental basis. This life is not what I ever imagined or could have tried to even fathom. There are days that I have “Terms Of Endearment” and then there are days that resemble “Overboard“. Granted I don’t wake up to Kurt Russel every morning in a house that resembles that of shed filled with filth. But life is still teaching me lessons.

The truth is…being a mom and wife is what defines me. I love and hate it all at the same time. All of it. There is no other way to describe it. When the kids are all playing and getting along it’s a moment of pure bliss. When they are fighting and scratching each others eyes out it makes me want to rip every last piece of my hair out until I am lifeless on the couch and mumbling “ba baa bbaaabbabba”

The same goes for marriage. When it’s good it’s it’s like….(wow I googled movies about good marriages and their wasn’t a single one!) Therefore I am going to pull the first one that comes to my quirky little mind… and that is “Sex Tape“. Don’t judge…we all wish we were that hot of a couple that we could just leave our homemade porno in ” the cloud”! And when It’s bad it’s more like “The War Of The Roses“.

Regardless of what “movie” may resemble my real life…the truth is…this is my life and nothing resembles it. I love my “not so little” family and I wouldn’t change it (well except maybe for the fact I would have more possibilities of someone babysitting for more then a few hours…I think my husband and I are in a serious need of a timeout… in a hotel room…not the corner). My “Ever After” is in the here and now.